LOL! Yeah, “We had to use a paper punch to get 720 KB out of our floppy disks and IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR US!”
I worked for a company in 1976 that had a 8080 with the LEDs and toggle switches on the front panel. I can’t remember if it was a MITS or an IMSIA, but I marveled at the old teletype machine they had hooked to it to input a program so they didn’t have to use the front panel switches.
Other companies were producing more advanced stuff years ahead of this, but the costs put them out of reach of small companies or hobbyists. My first computer was a Heathkit with a hexadecimal keypad and 7 segment LED readout. Next was a Tandy Color Computer, then a Tandy 1000 IBM compatible.